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      07-17-2008, 05:33 PM   #1
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How the hell did that happen?!?!

I'm not sure if that ever happened to you guy, but after filling my car up and a 40 min drive to downtown Chicago on the 4th, I got over 26 mpg. How did that happen??
And also a couple days earlier, I crossed 10,000 mile mark. I was kinda sad in the beginning, but whatever. (sorry for the quality, but took the pics while driving)
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      07-17-2008, 06:01 PM   #2
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Umm....how did what happen?
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Umm....how did what happen?
Are you kidding? If I was driving down hill with the wind behind behind me, drafting off a semi on the freeway, maybe, just maybe I would get 26+ mpg....
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Are you kidding? If I was driving down hill with the wind behind behind me, drafting off a semi on the freeway, maybe, just maybe I would get 26+ mpg....
Yeah, exactly. That's what I meant by posting this up.
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Are you kidding? If I was driving down hill with the wind behind behind me, drafting off a semi on the freeway, maybe, just maybe I would get 26+ mpg....
No I wasn't kidding. Just had no idea what the OP was trying to talk about.

26mpg isn't a big deal in the Z4M so I guess that's why it didn't occur to me the OP was referring to the MPG and that the car was getting good gas mileage. I easily get 28~29mpg (real mpg, not according to OBC) when I drive from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. (about 130 miles) averaging 70mph. The S54 is capable of getting good gas mileage. Like Jeremy Clarkson said, it's not what you drive it's how you drive it.
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I'm with GP20...26 mpg isn't that big of a deal...
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So I embarassed myself, didn't I?
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Like Jeremy Clarkson said, "It's not what you drive, it's how you drive it". well said..lol
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Like Jeremy Clarkson said, "It's not what you drive, it's how you drive it". well said..lol
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So I embarassed myself, didn't I?
I dont' think you embarassed yourself. 26+mpg is possible for a short stint. The best average(tank) on the freeway I have gotten is ~24mpg which I am quite happy with. This is BMW's EPA avg. ratings:

Fuel Consumption: City= *15 mpg Highway *22 mpg

*EPA-estimated figures are for comparison purposes only. Your actual mileage will vary, depending on speed, driving habits, trip length, and driving conditions; actual mileage may be lower.
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You sure take a lot of pictures while you are driving...
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I'm going to see if I can reawaken this post from the dead.. So do most of you think it's unreasonable to expect 27mpg on a 700mi road trip cruising at 60mph?

I figure as slow as 60 I'll be able to push 27mpg (and yes yes, i know this car is not designed for excellent mpg, etc, )
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Wow I've never checked my MPG i wouldnt even know how to get it out of the computer fuel's so cheap in the USA I try to use as much as possible because I'll never have it this cheap again!
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I'm going to see if I can reawaken this post from the dead.. So do most of you think it's unreasonable to expect 27mpg on a 700mi road trip cruising at 60mph?

I figure as slow as 60 I'll be able to push 27mpg (and yes yes, i know this car is not designed for excellent mpg, etc, )
I think you could easily get 27MPG if only doing 60. As kind of a trivial experiment, I totally babied it for 2 days of round-trip commuting, 60 miles total. Super slow acceleration, shifted at/before 3k RPM. I averaged 27.1 mpg. I say trivial because 2 days of driving that slow was all the will power I could muster. The mpg promptly dropped for the remainder of the tank. I plan on never mistreating my car that way again
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I could get around 33mpg if I did 60. 3.0> M in every possible way hahhhhaa. just kidding
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Very good, thanks for the responses - I'll update with my mileage after I make the trip.

Oh, and anyone else, feel free to throw your 60mph 6th gear highway cruising mileage up.
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Highest I've gone with a mix of highway/city in my 3.0Si is 25mpg. On my trip to BimmerFest, 300 miles I think it is, I got a little over 30mpg.
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I'm going to see if I can reawaken this post from the dead.. So do most of you think it's unreasonable to expect 27mpg on a 700mi road trip cruising at 60mph?

I figure as slow as 60 I'll be able to push 27mpg (and yes yes, i know this car is not designed for excellent mpg, etc, )
I think it's unreasonable to maintain 60MPH for an entire 700 mile trip. I can maybe do a couple hundred of miles at 60mph, but for a trip longer than that? A 700 mile trip? I'd get up to 75mph, 80mph, 85mph every chance I can just to shorten up the trip time as much as I can. I think I'd go insane if I had to stay at 60mph the entire way.

But nonetheless, getting 27MPG at 60mph is very easy for the Z4M.
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